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Our first suggestion for Friday is the first of four productions for the Hune Company Living Room Series Not Mad. “It’s a brand-new show that we’ve created. It’s all Shakespeare’s text, but we’ve pieced together pieces [from King Lear] to create our own piece,” said Matt Hune, artistic director of Hune...

For more dance companies, spring shows come and go, but when you're audience demands a second viewing, it's a rare pleasure to be able to oblige a repeat performance. Houston City Dance finds itself in that enviable position; tomorrow night the company presents Junebug: A Ballet after an enthusiastically received...

An acquaintance of mine, a German native who now lives outside Hamburg, warned me about that city’s ballet audience. They’re reserved and quite cool, and don’t make a lot of noise. Usually they won’t applaud when a scene is over or even after an especially dramatic pas de deux. You...

The Setup: Tomorrow night marks the conclusion of Suchu Dance's three-weekend Comedy Dance Festival, a new venture for the company that tickles dance's often unrealized funny bone. The festival is a fundraiser to help Suchu Dance move into the next chapter of its long-running operation; Jennifer Wood and company's current...

On Friday, ska music and a celebration of vine-ripened, unmodified tomatoes come together in SKAMATO, one of the new works seen in the Big Two-Hearted Festival. “It’s pronounced like tomato, ska-mato,” Michele Brangwen tells us, laughing. “I knew that I wanted to do something about the food industry, and I...